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What’s your backstory? I spent 2 years after school in the South African Army, I learned to parachute, it was a great experience. I studied the Woolworths management course after completing the army. I dabbled in many businesses, had a clothing shop, jewelry store and by 24 opened my jewelry wholesale business. I completed
Can you tell me the story of your prior successes, challenges, and major responsibilities? I started out as a one-man content team, which was empowering in the sense that I was able to control the amount of work I was taking on and ultimately play a role in deciding my quality of life. Within a
Can you tell me the story of your prior successes, challenges, and major responsibilities? 10 years ago I had just been arrested for the 3rd time in 18 months – this time with a dui. I have failed out of university – was a borderline drunk/drug addict who was going nowhere. I then started listening
Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. Whether we are using our time effectively or not, the choice is ultimately up to the individual. Brian Nabavi believes that maximizing and making the most out of the hours that are given to us means that we are a step closer to reaching success. It
The average millionaire has 7 sources of income. The great news is that with the internet, easy selling tools like Shopify and other platforms (ahem WordPress), you can be closer than ever to start diversifying your income and stop relying on just your salary. If you are a newbie to digital marketing, fear nothing. I
A colossal number of readmissions occur due to poor care and coordination caused by siloed EHR systems and various state regulations. In the U.S. 117 million people have been diagnosed with one or more illnesses. These patients do not have an efficient way of documenting or gaining access to their health information. Ever imagined contacting
Can you tell me the story of your prior successes, challenges, and major responsibilities? I don’t have the typical rags to riches story. I have a great family, average class for the most part. Coming from a Vietnamese household, entrepreneurship or anything closely related to what I’m doing was 100% out of the question and
Some of the most important lessons in life are learned through the most difficult times. Whether we are learning how to build resilience and face obstacles head on, there is a beauty in all of it. The beauty comes from the ability to embrace adversity and reach success that was once deemed impossible. Undeterred by
Can you tell me the story of your prior successes, challenges, and major responsibilities? When I first came onto the social media scene, my goal was to build a blog and impact lives around the world. I didn’t know what that looked like, but I knew I had important information to give! I started
You’re heading out on your next travel adventure. You’ve packed your bags and you’re about to catch your ride to the airport. Before ordering your Uber, you open up another app and arrange a pick-up for your bags. A driver arrives at your house, seals your suitcase in a tamper-proof cover and takes it off
Have you ever had trouble cooking during the holidays? Or simply wished there were an easier way to plan meals, shop and cook for one’s families or dinner parties? Studies have shown that as many as 1/3 of Americans find the holiday season to be simply hectic. Enter Chefling, a smart home assistant that does
Can you tell me the story of your prior successes, challenges, and major responsibilities? Through a combination of timing, skill, work ethic and sheer luck I have been able to create multiple companies from thin air and turn them into multiple 6 figure and beyond businesses. In 2013 I started my first brick and mortar
Love, wealth, and health are the main things that most individuals spend their whole life working towards. If one of those things appears to be missing in one’s life, then there is a great chance they are also aware of the fact that this may be missing in their life. Very little people understand that
Can you tell me the story of your prior successes, challenges, and major responsibilities? I never could make eCommerce work for me. I worked all day at my job and all night on my online business. I made sales, but hardly any profit ever came from it. Until I learned about sales funnels. Using them
A clear, step-by-step plan to start investing in 2026: set goals, build a safety net, pick low-cost funds, and avoid the mistakes that cost beginners.
33 year-old Tal Maimon is the Owner and operator of Maimon’s Group Luxury, Rentals and Concierge services. Tals Background Story Tal: At age 23 upon completion of my service in the Israeli Navy I decided to move to united states. I worked as a waiter for the first year and slowly began to set my
The holidays are here and the year is almost over. New opportunity is ahead and 2019 will be as exciting as you allow it to be. Most people think about goals when they approach the new year. Perhaps you’re thinking about goals and dreams as well. Did you accomplish what you wanted in 2018? Was
Fashion is more than just wearing fancy clothes and making yourself look good. It’s culture. It’s a movement. In order to have a successful luxury brand you must have a concept behind it. You must have trust not only with the customers who buy your concept and ideology but trust with the stores. Trust with
Your business doesn’t need to consume your life
Leonard Person Jr has been an investor for over 15 years. He’s also the CEO of MyHouseGram.com and a Real Estate Expert that specializes and teaches strategic and creative Real Estate investing. Some things Leonard is known for include: Quiet title litigation (Receiving Properties Back Mortgage Free) Wholesale Acquisition Deals Buying and Selling Nonperforming Notes Basics Fix
What’s your backstory? I grew up dirt poor and on the streets at an early age. I straddled the line between being a good kid and a bad kid often living in the gray area. I would at one time become homeless when I was 15 and eventually found myself moving cross country from Spokane,
Josh Ryans Background Story Josh grew up in a small town, isolated in the middle of nowhere in New Zealand in a place called Golden Bay with a population of around 2,000 people. Even though his family wasn’t wealthy, they were very supportive and always encouraged Josh to go after his dreams. Growing up he
Meet 24-year-old Giovanni Contardi is a visual Artist from Italy who’s officially represented by Gallery 104 in New York. He’s known for creating portraits using hundreds of Rubik’s cubes (roughly 700) using each single piece of the cube as a pixel to create an image. He shares his work on Instagram and now it has been seen by millions
He started his first company at 16, dropped out of college at 19, and went on to build a Multi-Million Dollar empire by 20. In a nutshell – this Boston native is obsessed with starting cutting-edge empires and disrupting the status quo of industries stuck on old ideologies. At the sight and sound of his
Jon has been an entrepreneur for more than 10 years and has successfully scaled 8 companies, selling one in 2018 and currently growing a nationally recognized award-winning brand. While three of these businesses almost killed him, that didn’t stop him… In fact, over the past decade alone, he has helped scale and consult on over
Being an influencer on social media and traveling the world seems like an unattainable dream for most, but for Meagan Faye, known as @meaganfaye on Instagram, it’s a reality she insists is possible for anyone. We all know you can’t become a legitimate influencer overnight. Here’s how Meagan spent the last four years growing her
Guest Post By: Thomas Carter, founder of DealBox, a blockchain business accelerator and crowdfunding platform for startups I’ve been raising capital for 30 years and know first-hand that the process is not an easy one. Entrepreneurs spend precious time and energy jetting between meetings with potential investors while simultaneously building their business. They squander meaningful
BangerBuddy (@bangerbuddy on instagram) currently stands at 3 million followers. With a follower increase of thousands daily, Bangerbuddy is one of the top social media party pages in the world. I had the opportunity to sit down with the Bangerbuddy founder, Nick Filchy (@filchy on instagram). What started off as a just for fun page
Michelle Balingit, also known as Sey Michelle, is a Los Angeles based social media consultant and brand photographer. She began as a self-taught photographer over 9 years ago and has been involved in marketing for 5 years, so when she fell in love with social media marketing, she put her two passions together. Creating her
If you’re not focusing on SEO, you’re falling behind. Every company now has to have a presence on the Internet, and they have to invest the time into making that presence rank on search engines. That’s a given these days. It’s not hard to get a handle on the basics of search engine optimization, either.
Building an app, software, or any other platform is an exciting endeavor, but you need to know how to go about things in order to make it a success. You might be providing a valuable service and fulfilling a new niche, but how do you make users aware of it? The reality is that you
Get this: LogDNA saw tremendous growth in 2018 with over 2,000 customers using their solution and increasing revenue 5x from the previous year. Also, recently the company announced a new self-hosted product for those companies that prefer to maintain all of the software on their own servers, instead of or in conjunction with the cloud
Christian Vind: What is your backstory? Andrew St. Jean (JayyManik): My name is Andrew St. Jean also known as Jayymanik, New York photographer from Brooklyn. I’ve lived my entire life here. Just owning my first real camera, a Canon Powershot point n shoot camera while enjoying taking pictures got me interested in photography. Capturing memories
Martine De Luna is a wife, mother, and transformational coach from the concrete jungle of Manila, the Philippines. A self-professed culture-hacker and “bliss-maker”, Martine grew up as a third culture kid amidst the international school circuit in Hong Kong and Singapore, before planting her roots in Manila, where she began working from the age of
Using the Shopify platform, one man has helped generate over $20 million in revenue and the heads of Shopify are taking notice. Justin Woll, founder of the eCommerce Mentoring Agency BeyondSixFigures, has been helping hundreds of individuals create dropshipping businesses and growing them to near 6-figure incomes by selling various products online. Many of BeyondSixFigures’
1. Tell us about Trufan.io and this new endeavour of yours- looks impressive. Trufan is an enterprise SaaS company, founded by two of Canada’s top young entrepreneurs, Swish Goswami and Aanikh Kler, who were both inducted into Canada’s Top 20 under 20 a few years ago. The company’s web platform uses a proprietary algorithm to
It’s far too easy to get caught up in the hype and hoopla of social media and forget that it’s part of a larger strategy. To business owners, the whole idea of content marketing and social media must be confusing. How do you know it’s working? Is there a direct measurable return on investment? These are fundamental
The Steinkeller Brothers, Aron Steinkeller, Stephan Steinkeller, and Christian Steinkeller, are working on a project to improve the environment of the world. Their mission is to protect the rainforest and environment. They believe all changes start with a small group of people. They’ve worked hard to spread the word and have thousands of followers on
In the past few years, we have seen substantial advancements in a variety of industries. From technology to medicine, we have seen stocks soar and products fly off the shelves. The CBD industry is no exception to this economic boom. With a 2016 valuation of over $202 million, the CBD industry has set a precedent
What’s your backstory? Growing up as an engineering student in India, I made some bad decisions in my 20’s and ended up gambling. I was dissatisfied with my job. Disillusioned with the way things worked. So, to distract myself, I hung out with some people I really shouldn’t have who were obsessed with betting. I
Meet Ignacio Perez de Bartolome. If it doesn’t ring a bell, Coach Perez will. He heads Business Strategy at Sai.Coach, a 7-figure consulting firm for coaches who are serious about building their business. Tell us, do life coaches really struggle with their businesses? Ignacio Perez: What was once a niche has become a billion dollar industry. Life
Jane Martinito is the founder of Meiro Studio, a fast-growing web design and virtual business based in the Philippines. She is a Psychology graduate with excellent grades but she eventually found her passion in designing websites. She was included in the Top Filipino Professionals on LinkedIn to Follow in Marketing in Asia.
Vivek Jain is a seasoned entrepreneur, finance executive, actor, tennis addict and is now dedicated on helping people find love through his new dating app LOKO….but is first and foremost a dedicated father and son from Regina, Saskatchewan. “If you can dream it, it’s possible.” Tell us about LOKO How did you come up with
Social media presence has become a big part of modern-day marketing. A large part of what we can accomplish in today’s age in terms of success comes down to one word: PERCEPTION. Whether we are an individual looking to become the next top model in NYC or a small business owner who wants to capture
What is your “backstory”? I grew up fast, I had separated parents that had families on opposite sides of the US. They were both from San Diego but my Moms family ended up in Detroit and shortly after I was born that’s where my Mom and I went. We came back to San Diego when
Some individuals would only dream of working with celebrities someday. It sounds amazing to make money hanging out with celebrities on almost a weekly basis. The truth about being an individual with such responsibilities is that it takes a long time to make those connections. It’s also a lot of work having to maintain and
What’s your backstory? I grew up in Edina, Minnesota. After completing High School, I attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO. After graduation in 2008 I went to work for Johnson and Johnson as an orthopedic medical device sales representative in Chicago, IL. After two and a half years working for JnJ in Chicago
“Years ago I used to be very sick, very upset, scared, depressed and lonely”- What’s your backstory? Years ago I used to be very sick, very upset, scared, depressed and lonely. I visited lots of doctors and therapists for years and none of them had any impact. I was listening to a podcast that was
